huh, looks like I’m not grey today, but I was yesterday. Whatever!

I once had a car with a loan from the credit union. They sent us the title, and my wife and I never really thought about it, we just tacked it up on the kitchen bulletin board thinking they would eventually follow up on it. When the car got bought back from VW, then the credit union was hounding us, all the way across…

No worries, I hope you get the 2005. I miss ours a great deal, they’re amazing cars if you keep up with the maintenance!

Any E-TDI (ALH and after) is micro-processor controlled. Maybe a ‘98 Jetta would be OK, and a 1990 Golf would be fine. But there’s lots of computer power controlling those PD injectors on your 2005. There’s less on the 1999-2003 TDIs but if you can change engine parameters with VCDS, then there’s an electronic ECU…

Maybe so. It’s still under warranty, but I don’t know that it’s performing outside of its acceptable parameters. Again, I come from manuals exclusively, so maybe it’s fine, but it feels like slush to me.

Owning one for over a year, I respectfully disagree. Feels like an old chevy caprice. My first auto ever, but I rent Hyundais over the summer that feel more crisp.

328d only comes in squishy slush box.

I respect your right to have that opinion, but for me, it’s the worst part about owning a F30 328d wagon. Ugh. Feels like a 90s auto-barge to me. If I could swap it for a manual, I’d do it in a second.

I hate to agree with you, but I think it depends on the car. On our TDI’s, the 5 speed ruled, and the 6 speed in our later TDI wagon was teh sucks. The 6 speed in my mk7 GTI is pretty good, though not amazing in its feel.

Oil filter canister. Many VW’s use a plastic permanent canister, you just replace the filter media.

Just a point of clarification: Gal Godot is an Israeli with an intense white supremacy complex, who openly supports the Israeli bombing of Palestinian civilians.

I think the center stack is laughing at me...

Mk7 here. I can’t believe how well it did in the snow with stock all-seasons. Just popped off the traction control and let the LSD do its job. Fun!

Creature Report, Creature Report!

My 70+ mother-in-law lives in Bend, and goes over Santiam pass in the winter with her Camry hybrid and some snow tires every time she needs to do an appointment in Portland. PDX doesn’t get that much snow, and I used to drive over the passes with a 2001 golf TDI without traction control. Get yourself a good FWD car,…

Riva 1920, nah I like my Rivas 2107. Lada that is. Thank you very much.

Agreed. You want a real motherfucker’s car, find out what Videla drove. Maybe you can find the helicopter they through dissidents out of over the ocean. Peron was no sweetheart, but so much better than what replaced him. Maybe buy a Ford Falcon. Peron as dictator... ehhh, not so much.

Flippers are the epitome of gentrification. Using loans and grants to fix up houses, then sell at a major profit. One way to stave off gentrification is to provide home improvement grants and loans that require maintenance of ownership/residency in a house for a specified period of time.

Umm. No. That may be the second definition provided by google, but if you look at the etymology, gentrification has always indicated displacement by the landed class against the urban poor. It’s a term that described several processes of “renewal” of British and European cities, beautification by cleansing the…

I’m going to just say something that could help people out of a jam, or at least delay it. We know this government is interested in screwing over poor people and the middle class, fact. We know that student loans are bullshit, and cost more and more to get education from institutions that rely more and more on cheaper…